Psalm 39:5

The Scriptures 2009

See, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime is as non-existence before You; Only, all men standing, are all breath. Selah.”

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Ya‛aqoḇ said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings are one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.”

2 Samuel 19:34

But Barzillai said to the sovereign, “How many are the days of my life, that I should go up with the sovereign to Yerushalayim?

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without expectancy.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath, His days like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:11

“When You chastise man for crookedness with reproofs, You consume what he loves, like a moth; All men are but a breath. Selah.

Psalm 62:9

Sons of Aḏam are but a breath, Sons of men are a lie; If weighed in the scales, They are altogether lighter than breath.

Psalm 89:47

Please remember how short my time is; Why should you have created all the sons of men for naught?

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to number our days, And let us bring the heart to wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

“Futility! Futility!” says Qoheleth. “Futility, futility, all is futile!”

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labour in which I had toiled, see, all was futile and feeding on wind, and there was no gain under the sun.

Isaiah 40:17

All nations before Him are as a non-entity, and they are reckoned by Him as less than a speck, and emptiness.

James 4:14

when you do not know of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour that appears for a little, and then disappears –

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved ones, let not this one matter be hidden from you: that with יהוה one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.